Glorious Quote by Rebecca West

All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship…

— Gene Wolfe

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

— Anonymous

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

— Jodi Picoult

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was…

— Tom Jaine

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too…

— Jane Austen

A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

— Neil Tennant

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

— Kathy Baker

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not…

— Simon Schama

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

— Naomi Wolf